All levels completed aside from "secret" floors. Warlock's Tower is a retro-styled puzzle game, tasking the player with navigating the floors of the eponymous tower across a series of 2D rooms, filled with various switches, enemies and other obstacles. The key mechanic for most of the game is that the number of moves that you can make is severely limited and must be replenished through pickups scattered around each level. In the early stages this works quite well to generate a decent challenge, but by the later stages this restriction results in a rapid increase in difficulty, with large rooms that have pretty much a single solution that's very hard to map out - I'm not ashamed to admit that I resorted to a guide for a good number of these! As some respite, though, the final set of levels varies the mechanics somewhat (being vague to avoid spoilers) that makes the game much more enjoyable, so it leaves a more positive impression than it might otherwise do.

(If anyone is aware of a guide that covers the 'secret floors', please let me know!)

Reviewed on Dec 25, 2022


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